US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 29 for "Solid-state battery management system for high current applications" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,721, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Solid-state battery management system for high current applications" was invented by Michael Hibbard (Long Beach, Calif.), Anil Paryani (Cerritos, Calif.), Andrew Almendares (Long Beach, Calif.), Mohit Chand (Santa Fe Springs, Calif.), Jiaqi Liang (La Crescenta, Calif.) and Yoganand Parthasarathy (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Battery Management System (BMS) integrating solid-state relay and current shunt sensor on a single printed circuit board assembly (PCBA), in lieu of traditional electro-mechanical contactors and fuses ...